3 First know ye this thing, that in the last days deceivers [or scorners] shall come in deceit, going after their own covetings,

4 saying, Where is the promise, or the coming of him? for since the fathers died [or slept], all things last from the beginning of creature.

5 But it is hid from them willing this thing, that heavens were before [or first], and the earth of water was standing by water, by God’s word;

6 by which that same world cleansed, then by water perished.

7 But the heavens that now be, and the earth, be kept by the same word, and be reserved to fire into the day of doom, and perdition of wicked men.